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Solow is a spokesman only for economics, and has seldom gone on record on volatile public issues. He was senior economist on the staff of the Council of Economics Advisors to President Kennedy, and was later appointed to the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs by President Johnson...
...triumphant end, the assault on the Wall of the Early Morning Light -the sheerest approach to the summit of Yosemite's El Capitan Peak-was an atavism. For those who watched, it was like all high adventure, an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary life where seldom are there clean, finite beginnings, middles and ends to anything, and unalloyed success is rarer still...
...pains not to have knowledge or give consent (by leaving fiscal matters to specially created committees) enables big spenders quite honestly to have nothing to report. Hidden coststhe loan of a secretary from a business executive, the use of a corporate plane, access to computersare seldom disclosed...
...laid down in 1934 in a small book called The Edge of the Sword. "Nothing demonstrates authority better than silence," he wrote. "There can be no prestige without mystery, for we have little reverence for that which we know too well." De Gaulle rarely granted private press interviews and seldom appeared in public. At his press conferences, held about every six months, 1,000 or so journalists would sit on frail gilded chairs in an ornate reception hall in the Elysée as De Gaulle answered the questions that suited him and invariably passed over the others...
...SELDOM has one book had so instant an impact on political affairs. The news media have pushed The Real Majority as the fountain of all current political wisdom. Party heads pored over advance copies, and politicians have embraced its precepts. After the mid-term elections, President Nixon complained to his advisors that "the Democrats read Scammon and Wattenberg." The vogue of political tracts of such influence is usually short. Kevin Phillip's The Emerging Republican Majority was the rage a year ago, but has already been discredited. Unlike Phillip's book, however, The Real Majority holds up remarkably well...